Afghan university chancellor tipped as candidate for top U.N. job

[AGENDA21]

KABUL, March 9_(Kyodo) _ The chancellor of Kabul University has been tipped as a possible candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as secretary general of the United Nations, an official said Thursday.

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, a former Afghan finance minister, "is a possible candidate" to replace Annan, whose second five-year term as U.N. chief ends this year, Kabul University official Sima Ghani said.

The chancellor, who is now in the United States for a medical checkup, has been informally notified by the Office of the U.N. secretary general of his possible nomination, but he has not replied yet, the official said.

Ashraf Ghani, born in 1949, has a doctorate from Columbia University and served as Afghanistan's finance minister during the transitional government from 2002 to 2004.

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/09/1443062.htm

[bryant69]

1. That would be interesting

Would he be basically our man?

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[AGENDA21]

2. It would seem that way.